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chap. 2, para. 1.
    44. Pakula, An Uncommon Woman , p. 498.
    45. Gelardi, In Triumph’s Wake , p. 319.
    46. Ibid., p. 334.
    47. Pakula, An Uncommon Woman , p. 536.
     
     
    4: “Bitter Tears”
    1. Clay, King, Kaiser, Tsar , p. 156.
    2. Gelardi, From Splendor to Revolution , p. 51.
    3. Clay, King, Kaiser, Tsar , p. 156.
    4. Ibid., p. 157.
    5. For more information on the theories regarding Eddy, refer to Andrew Cook , Prince Eddy: The King Britain Never Had (Stroud, Gloucester: The History Press, 2011).
    6. Queen Victoria to Princess Victoria of Battenberg, March 31, 1889, in Advice to a Grand-daughter , Hough, p. 100.
    7. Queen Victoria to Princess Victoria of Battenberg, October 30, 1889, in ibid., p. 105.
    8. Erickson, Alexandra , p. 36.
    9. Prince Albert Victor of Wales to Prince Louis of Battenberg, October 7, 1889, Southampton University archive MB1/T77/f2, in Cook, Prince Eddy (Kobo desktop version, 2012; retrieved from www.kobobooks.com ), chap. 7, para. 116-17.
    10. Queen Victoria to the Empress Frederick, May 7, 1890, in Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1984), Anne Edwards, p. 24.
    11. Queen Victoria to Princess Victoria of Battenberg, July 15, 1890, in Advice to a Grand-daughter , Hough, p. 106.
    12. Queen Victoria to Princess Victoria of Battenberg, December 19, 1890, in Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals (New York: Viking Penguin, 1985), ed. Christopher Hibbert, p. 318.
    13. Erickson, Alexandra , p. 43–44.
    14. Tyler-Whittle, The Last Kaiser , p. 129.
    15. Shaw, Royal Babylon (Kobo desktop version), chap. 5, para. 2.
    16. John C. G. Röhl, Wilhelm II: The Kaiser’s Personal Monarchy, 1888–1900 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001), p. 129.
    17. Gordon Brook-Shepherd, The Last Habsburg (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968), p. 3.
    18. Queen Emma of the Netherlands was the second youngest. She was a mere three months and ten days older than Dona. Her title as the youngest reigning consort was short-lived, lasting only fourteen months. On October 19, 1889, King Charles I ascended the Portuguese throne. His wife, Queen Amélie, was twenty-four.
    19. Clay, King, Kaiser, Tsar , p. 139.
    20. Röhl, Wilhelm II , p. 625.
    21. Lamar Cecil, Wilhelm II: Emperor and Exile, 1900–1941 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), pp. 3–4.
    22. Carter, George, Nicholas and Wilhelm , p. 96.
    23. Feuchtwanger, Albert and Victoria , p. 95.
    24. Carter, George, Nicholas and Wilhelm , p. 88.
    25. Ibid., p. 97.
    26. Diary entry of March 15, 1890, in Gone Astray , Wilhelm II, p. 200.
    27. Gelardi, In Triumph’s Wake , p. 325.
    28. Diary entry of July 5, 1890, in Gone Astray , Wilhelm II, pp. 204–205.
    29. Schwering, Berlin Court Under William II , p. 56.
    30. Clark, Kaiser Wilhelm II (Kobo desktop version), chap. 3, para. 11.
    31. Shaw, Royal Babylon (Kobo desktop version), chap. 5, para. 51.
    32. Cecil, Wilhelm II , p. 4.
    33. John Van der Kiste, Kaiser Wilhelm II: Germany’s Last Emperor (Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1999), p. 79.
    34. Pakula, An Uncommon Woman , p. 539.
    35. Gelardi, Born to Rule , pp. 25–26.
    36. Arthur Gould Lee, ed., The Empress Frederick Writes to Sophie, Her Daughter, Crown Princess and Later Queen of the Hellenes: Letters 1889–1901 (London: Faber & Faber, 1955), p. 76.
    37. Pakula, An Uncommon Woman , p. 539.
    38. Empress Frederick, to Crown Princess Sophie of Greece, undated, 1890, in The Empress Frederick Writes to Sophie, ed. Gould Lee, p. 74.
    39. Spokane Falls Daily Chronicle , December 18, 1890.
    40. Pakula, An Uncommon Woman , p. 540.
    41. Tyler-Whittle, The Last Kaiser , p. 145.
    42. Pakula, An Uncommon Woman , p. 537.
    43. Ibid., p. 540.
    44. Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg was a first cousin to both Wilhelm and Augusta Victoria. Her mother, Princess Helena, was Queen Victoria’s daughter; and her father, Prince Christian, was Fritz Holstein’s younger brother. Marie